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B. P. WAGGONBR.

PIPE COLLAR.

No. 386,671. Patented July 24, 1888.

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EDWVARD P. XVAGGONER, OF SYRACUSE, NE? YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THEPIERCE, BUTLER 8: PIERCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PIPE-=COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,671, dated July 24,1888.

Application lilml December 17, 1857. Serial No. 2553.140. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: It will be at once understood that I shallcon- Be it known that I, EDWARD P.\VAGGONER, struct these collars ofvarious metals and in vaof Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in therious ways, according to the use they are in- State of NewYorlghaveinvented newand use tended for, and shall also make differentsizes ful Improvemcntsin PipeCollars,of which the to fit stove-pipes,water or gas pipes, do, the 40 following, taken in connection with theaccomcollar being placed over the pipe and pushed panying drawings. is afull, clear, and exact up against a wall or partition, requiring nodescription. other fastening, asit is held firmly against any Thisinvention relates to an improvement in change of position by theelasticity of the IO pipe-collars; and it consists in certainpeculispring-band c.

arities of the construction and arrangement of In Figs. 3 and 4 I haveshown a modification, the same, substantially as will be hereinafter inwhich the collar is provided with a sleeve more fully set forth andclaimed. fitting the pipe and slotted out on its-sides to In order toenable others skilled in the art give the spring-bands c a chance tograsp the 15 to which my invention pertains to make and i b d This formwill prove of value for 50 use the same, I will now proceed to describets some purposes; but I prefer that first described construction anduse, referring to the acconias h er and much more simple.

panying drawings, in which- Having thus fully described my invention,Elgnre 11's P and Fiif- 2 Side what I claim as new, and desire to secureby 20 v1ew,partly broken awaypf my p: efe r d form Letters Patent, iS-55 of collar, while Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views A i oll r havingstuds inside its central ofa slight modification of the same. openingand an elastic band connecting theareprcsentsapipe-collar,madeofmctahand studs for closely hugging thepipe, substanpressed, cast, spun, or otherwise formed of the tially asand for the purpose set forth.

25 desired shape and size for the purpose in View. In testimony whereofI have hereunto signed 60 The collar is of course formed with a centralmy name in the presence of two attesting witopening to admit the passageof the pipe, and ncsses, at Syracuse, in the county of Ononon itsinnerside on each side of the opening is daga, in the State of New York,this 5th day a projecting stud,b. These studs are connected of December,1887.

0 around the pipe, on one or both sides, by an elastic band, 0, whichclosely hugs the pipe EDWVARD P. \VAGGONER. and so retains the collarfirmly in place. This band is made of any material suitable to the\Vitnesses:

purpose; but I prefer to use the one shown in FREDERICK H. GIBBs,

35 the drawings, formed of aspiral of spring-wire. E. C. CANNON.

